• MotoAsh@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    You have to pay for tokens on many of the “AI” tools that you do not run on your own computer.

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      6 hours ago

      Hmm, interesting theory. However:

      1. We know this is an issue with language models, it happens all the time with weaker ones - so there is an alternative explanation.

      2. LLMs are running at a loss right now, the company would lose more money than they gain from you - so there is no motive.

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        5 hours ago

        Of course there’s a technical reason for it, but they have incentive to try and sell even a shitty product.

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        4 hours ago

        I think many of them do, but there are also many “AI” tools that will automatically add a ton of stuff to try and make it spit out more intelligent responses, or even re-prompt the tool multiple times to try and make sure it’s not handing back hallucinations.

        It really adds up in their attempt to make fancy autocomplete seem “intelligent”.

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          Yes, reasoning models… but i dont think they would charge on that… that would be insane, but AI executives are insane, so who the fuck knows.